Odilim Enwegbara

Each time I spear the time to watch the amount of time our leaders spend celebrating themselves rather than celebrating ideas that should solve our problems and lift us up, it shows me our leaders not only lack patriotic sentiments, selflessness, seriousness, but have no sense of urgency...

After listening to Mr. President's budget speech, I couldn't control my happiness because it was as if the President had just read my mind. Here are some of the things I've been thinking...

There is no great economy without many regional economic entities competing among themselves within it. The United States, which every nation has looked up to until the recent emergence of the Dragon, was as vibrant and robust as its twelve regional economies fiercely competing amongst themselve...

As soon as he could talk, he began to ask his parents and everyone else all interminable whats, whys, whens, and wheres. His strangely inquisitive, inattentive, and rebellious character also meant growing up and doing things his own way...

Once it was philosophy that reigned. Architecture, science, law, and medicine at some time also each had their own glorious time. Business education did not make its way into the professional dictionary until several decades after the industrial revolution. Before then, business skills were learned through master-apprentice relationships...

Economies under invisible empire are ruinously and continuously undermined by systematically moving the economy from one form of fiscal crisis to another, with the intent to perpetuate underdevelopment and dependency on Western financial institutions...

Since in a participatory democracy the politician needs the political party more than the political party needs the politician, it would be difficult to imagine a vibrant democracy without competing political parties...

There has never been a worse time for Europe than now. Its euro zone economy is almost bankrupt. And this long awaited time-bomb is taking place after decades of loading their economies with unsustainable social benefits...